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The New Spymasters: Inside Espionage from the Cold War to Global Terror
Stephen Grey
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Description for The New Spymasters: Inside Espionage from the Cold War to Global Terror
Paperback. Spying has changed. In this era of email intercepts and drone strikes, spooks are expected to uncover plots buried in mountains of data. Yet this makes the need for trained field operatives who can verify facts and uncover secrets more acute than ever. The human factor endures. This book gives an account of how modern espionage works. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: JPSN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
NUMBER ONE EVENING STANDARD BESTSELLER BOOK OF THE YEAR - DAILY TELEGRAPH 'Exceptional. A blueprint for productive, sophisticated espionage in the age of Islamist terror' Daily Telegraph Spying has changed. In this era of email intercepts and drone strikes, spooks are expected to uncover plots buried in mountains of data. Yet this makes the need for trained field operatives who can verify facts and uncover secrets more acute than ever. The human factor endures. In The New Spymasters, the first real account of how modern espionage works, we follow ... Read more
NUMBER ONE EVENING STANDARD BESTSELLER BOOK OF THE YEAR - DAILY TELEGRAPH 'Exceptional. A blueprint for productive, sophisticated espionage in the age of Islamist terror' Daily Telegraph Spying has changed. In this era of email intercepts and drone strikes, spooks are expected to uncover plots buried in mountains of data. Yet this makes the need for trained field operatives who can verify facts and uncover secrets more acute than ever. The human factor endures. In The New Spymasters, the first real account of how modern espionage works, we follow ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
368
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
368
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780141033983
SKU
V9780141033983
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About Stephen Grey
Stephen Grey is a British writer, broadcaster and investigative reporter with over two decades of experience of reporting on intelligence issues. He is best known for his world exclusive revelations about the CIA's programme of 'extraordinary rendition', as well as reports from Iraq and Afghanistan. A former foreign correspondent and investigations editor with The Sunday Times, he has reported for ... Read more
Reviews for The New Spymasters: Inside Espionage from the Cold War to Global Terror
Valuable and thought-provoking, breaks new ground. A good manual for the spy cadets of the future, the dangers they face and traps they may well fall into
The Guardian
Draws on an impressive array of interviews with serving intelligence officers. A page-turner for those outside the secret world, and a thought-provoker for those inside it
The Times ... Read more
The Guardian
Draws on an impressive array of interviews with serving intelligence officers. A page-turner for those outside the secret world, and a thought-provoker for those inside it
The Times ... Read more